Youth Worker

The Children and Youth Group (CYG) in The Salvation Army Singapore serves hundreds of vulnerable children and youth yearly. In line with our vision to provide a continuum of care to uplift those in need, our services span from preventive services, foster care and residential services to reunification support services for vulnerable children returning to their natural families after being removed due to safety concerns. We believe that every child is precious and unique and children grow best in families. We also believe in the potential of every child and family to transform and thrive.

The Youth Development Centre is one of CYG's services and reaches out to latch-key young people from low to middle income families to guide them towards a more purposeful life, live out their dreams and contribute well to society.

As an outreach centre, the staff and volunteers engage the youth with a variety of sports, music and social activities to impart life skills that will help them build a strong foundation for their future. We run a drop-in centre to provide young people in the community with a safe and conducive place to hang out. We also run youth mental health programmes such as resilience building to help youth thrive. Through our youth mental health programmes we reach out to youth in the community as well as at risk youth in residential care. We also provide supervised access services for vulnerable children and youth.

Further, Youth Development Centre is also an incubator for new services such as youth mental health.

Responsibilities

About the job

The Youth Worker (YW) will be responsible for working closely with key stakeholders to plan, organise and implement these programmes which will involve managing volunteers and engaging youth from the community.

You will need to conduct needs and outcome assessments to measure and enhance programme effectiveness and ensure that our programmes are run well.

Other than these programmes, the YW will anchor the running of the drop-in centre, including engaging and mentoring children and youth, organising or conducting activities, working with volunteers and partners, and conducting youth outreach.

We are looking for someone who wants to make a difference in the youth mental health space, with a "Can Do" spirit, is a creative problem solver and has a passion for making a difference to youth. You should have the special X factor to connect and inspire youth.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with young people in accordance to YDC approved protocols while maintaining professional and purposeful relationships in order to enable the youth's holistic development.
• Implement and run youth mental health programmes including resilience building groupwork.
• Ensure smooth running of daily operations of YDC, from planning to execution of programmes that will develop youths' mental health coping, social and emotional competencies.
• Be the main liaison person to reach out to, communicate and work with potential stakeholders such as organisations, corporates, vendors and volunteers, to bring in appropriate programmes that meet the needs of our youths.
• To ensure volunteer-initiated programmes align with the different needs of the youths while maintaining the interest of volunteers.
• To engage and harness the support of corporate sponsors and community stakeholders towards the fundraising efforts or initiatives of the Centre and CYG.
• Strategise with the team on how we can effectively reach out to youths who would benefit from the programme via traditional means, partnerships and social media.
• To plan, develop and execute programmes that cater to the physical, emotional, spiritual, educational and social needs and interests of our youths. This includes youth mental health programmes and services.

Qualifications

Diploma or Degree in Psychology, social work or any other relevant discipline from an accredited institution.

Job Requirements

• Experience with working with youth mental health preferred.
• At least 1 year of experience working with youth.
• Flexible and open to new initiatives as and when YDC incubates a new service.

Core Competencies

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Understands issues relating to youth mental health and youth engagement.
• Able to connect with youth.

Other Information

Working Hours

10.00am to 7pm Monday to Friday (inclusive 1 hour for lunch)

Working Location

The Salvation Army

Children and Youth Group - Youth Development Centre

Address: 65 Kallang Bahru, #01-305. Singapore 330065